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A man, a woman and a young girl standing with a youth who is in University graduate's robes. The woman is wearing a hat and gloves. This photograph shows Jack, Rosemary, Russell & Anne Beedles, outside the Union Building University of Melbourne after the graduation ceremony in Wilson hall where Russell was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Ordinary Degree) 1959. Russell remembers: 'Everyone was very excited.' He was the first person in the family to have gone to University and graduated. His mother Anne is carrying the family Box Brownie camera in a shoulder bag, 'the source of most of the family photographs in the collection.'

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